Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
Originally Posted By: Ted
Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
Great post Baldo.
Appreciated.


It's amazing it's not illegal to be a member of the mafia. Or a 1% OMC. These are undisputed criminal organizations. If it is legal to ban certain organizations due to being contrary to the interests of society (eg KKK), then why are these not on that list.

Love to hear the argument against.

Because in a free society, you can't make it illegal to be a membership of an organization. In the US, I think it's covered under the "free assembly" part of the Constitution. You can freely associate with any person or group (even if they're criminal or radical). That’s why RICO laws require that someone partake in at least two crimes as part of a criminal organization. That effectively is punishing someone for being in the Mafia, but you still have to prove it on a case by case basis.

Terrorists are the only ones largely exempt from this and I'm not even trying to have that debate panic


And that's my point Ted. You can and they have and there are.

The KKK, Nazi party etc are all illegal organizations (and rightly so) which leads to my point, if you CAN ban groups (for whatever reason) then why not 1% and the mob.

Appreciate the above responses from all. But still confuzzled.

What do you mean? It isn't illegal to be a KKK or Nazi member.

"I die outside; I die in jail. It don't matter to me," -John Franzese